On 8/8/07, Joel B. Mohler wrote: > > I've never used colinux, but why is vmware a preferable choice than colinux? > I would think that it would be much easier to get something that felt like a > native windows application with colinux.
I think both vmware and colinux do very clumsy things to the Windows network configuration. These have caused me trouble on several occasions. On Windows I find Microsoft's Virtual PC to be simpler and superior: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/virtualpc/default.mspx I use it to run both SuSE 10 and Solaris 10.2 on my Windows dual-processor desktop very happily. > Anyhow, an idea that builds on this is to build some X application instead of > the notebook (ok, I'll admit I'm not a fan of the web notebook) and > distribute a free x-server for windows with SAGE for windows. I believe that > there might be an x-server out there which could make this feel like a very > native solution. I run Xming and Putty: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=156984&package_id=222154 to provide x-server support under Windows. I use it to run Linux x-windows applications like the Axiom HyperDoc browser and graphics on my Windows desktop. Xmaxima should be ok too. I rarely touch the virtual machine itself. Xming creates application windows that look and feel a lot like Windows windows (depending on the actual UI). For example you can run FireFox as a x-windows application on the same virtual machine that is running Sage. Except for some font differences it looks and works very nearly the same as native Windows FireFox. This seems faster for running the notebook than running native Windows FireFox and accessing the notebook "remotely". > Of course, there's still the file transfer problem ... that > is, the file system of colinux is distinct from the windows file system. > The usual solution is to mount a Windows shared directory via Samba smbfs. The big problem with all this is it assumes a fair amount of sophistication for the average Windows user and some knowledge of Linux fundamentals. I do not know how or if it is possible to create a single installer file that would install all of this in one step on a virgin Windows system (with Administrator rights, of course). Regards, Bill Page. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
